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Victoria James

Partner and beverage

director at

Cote restaurant,

sommelier, author

Stephen Fishler

CEO,

Metropolis Collectibles

Ken Gross

Author, former

director of the Petersen

Automotive Museum

Minor Marvel

Characters

As the Marvel Universe

expands, dust off rarities

like Marvel Mystery and

Sub-Mariner ($2,000 per

issue) from the wartime

Golden Age.

2015 Spe’y, Kitá Wines

Made by Native American

winemaker Tara Gomez on

tribal land in California’s

Santa Ynez Valley. Five

years in the bott le will have

this Rhône blend ($30) sing-

ing—and doubling in value.

Lexus SC 400

(1991– 2000 )

The svelte design of this

Grand Touring coupe

went virtually unchanged

for nine years. Forget its

squishy 200 1 second-gen

replacement and buy it

for less than $ 15 ,000.

Joker

Batman’s oldest foe

got a shot in the arm

from the 20 19 movie

Joker. A high-grade

cover ($3,000 to

$ 7 ,000) will net nicely

when a sequel rolls in.

Barolo Marassio,

Giulia Negri

Negri’s Italian red

is a breath of fresh

air for Piedmont’s

venerable vintners.

At $ 125 , expect it to

triple in a decade.

Datsun 240 Z

(197 0 –1973)

Crisply styled, fun to

drive and maintenance-

friendly, the 24 0Z single-

handedly put British sports

cars out of business.

Aim for $ 5 0,000—there’s

room to climb.

X-Men

With Dark Phoenix

having hit a wall last

year, it seems interest

in X-Men has pla-

teaued. Classic titles

in great condition

can fetch $2,000.

2018 SP68,

Occhipinti

Cult classics among

sommeliers, Arianna

Occhipinti’s other bio-

dynamic wines off er

more gravitas than this

cheerful $3 5 Sicilian.

Mazda MX-5 Miata

(1989–)

A rev-happy engine and

excellent handling made

the lovable litt le Miata

America’s most popular

club racing car. Built in

huge numbers, they’re un-

likely to go past $ 15 ,000.

BUY, HOLD, SELL

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WINE: WOMEN VINTNERS

AUTOS: JAPANESE SPORTS CARS

latest fi scal year (ending

on January 31, 2020), a

roughly 86% gain from

a year earlier. Shares are

about fl at since its June

IPO, but they’re still

enough for Kurtz’s 10%

stake to be worth nearly

$1.1 billion.

After getting a busi-

ness degree from Seton

Hall University and

spending years as an IT-

and security-consulting

drone, Kurtz launched

his own software security

startup, Foundstone,

in 1999. He sold that

company to McAfee and

later became the bigger

fi rm’s chief technol-

ogy offi cer. The idea for

CrowdStrike’s simpler,

faster, cloud-based soft-

ware came from watch-

ing a guy seated next to

him on a fl ight in 2011

spend a good 15 minutes

scanning his laptop with

McAfee. “I’m just sitting

there going, ‘Oh, my

God, this is terrible.’ ”

He quit McAfee

that same year to start

CrowdStrike. Five years

later, it had roughly

$50 million in revenue,

a fi gure that more than

doubled the following

year. Now CrowdStrike is

focused on current global

boiling points such as

Iran; it’s likely increas-

ing its reach in Europe,

where potential users

will face many of the

same threats as Crowd-

Strike’s stable of Ameri-

can customers. Trump’s

Ukraine conspiracy

theory, meanwhile, isn’t

hurting business. In fact,

Kurtz says, it has raised

“our visibility as a world

leader in cybersecurity.”